单词 | full-timer |
释义 | full-timern. 1. A child that attends school during the whole of school hours; opposed to half-timer n. 1. Now rare except as a use in specific contexts of sense 2. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > full- or part-time pupil full-timer1839 short-timer1863 half-timer1870 1839 Factories Act: Rep. Inspectors Educ. Provisions 37 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 42) XLII. 353 I have heard parents say, they were glad to see them get forward with learning, but at the same time they are anxious to have them passed for full-timers. 1857 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 27 Feb. 227/2 The use of this [piecing] machine and the condenser, also dispensing with juvenile labour, is extending very rapidly, thus throwing many out of work..and depriving them of certain educational advantages which they could not possess as full timers. 1870 Morning Post 2 June 2/1 There is no uniform rule as to the period either of age or knowledge when the ‘full-timer’ shall become the ‘half-timer’. 1895 Westm. Gaz. 6 June 2/2 He [sc. the half-timer] needn't read so well, write so well, draw so well, cipher so well as the full timer at school. 1908 School Govt. Chron. 16 May 465/2 Everyone knew the confusion and inconvenience caused in a school by having half-timers side by side with full-timers. 1999 P. Rickwood & V. Goodwin in A. Tait & R. Mills Convergence of Distance & Conventional Educ. (2001) ix. 120 The apparent inequity of part-timers having to pay tuition fees whilst full-timers, however financially endowed, did not. 2. A person who works full-time; (sometimes more generally) a person who engages in an activity, occupies a role, etc., full-time. Cf. part-timer n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to conditions > [noun] > one who works at specific time or hours night worker1601 daysman?1614 nightman1620 dayworker1802 dayman1821 full-timer1839 whole-timer1840 all-night man1861 part-timer1886 all-timer1891 over-timer1910 Saturdayite1932 nine-to-fiver1945 1839 Bradford Observer 28 Nov. The gentlemen present knew the difficulty that was often experienced in getting them to employ unless they had a full-timer to work with them. 1868 Fortn. Rev. Oct. 430 At thirteen the boy ‘passes the doctor’ (i.e., obtains a medical certificate of age), and becomes a ‘full-timer’,..amenable to the same rules, and subject to the same hours of labour, as the adult operative. 1934 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 June (Ital. Suppl.) p. v/4 If a full-timer, he began his duties before the lady rose, when he might have to air her linen. 1976 C. Vidich N.Y. Cab Driver & his Fare v. 115 By giving the full-timer the benefits of the part-timer, the union has allied itself with only half of its workers. 1992 N.Y. Times 28 June viii. 9/4 Anderson..has been completely resurrected by the Orioles as a standout left fielder. As a full-timer, he is batting .278, has scored 43 runs, stolen 24 bases and driven in 46 runs. 2005 Brisbane News 11 May 7/2 Derek says full-timers aren't paid well. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1839 |
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